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The potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for energy-efficient and performance-boosted wireless communications is recently gaining remarkable research attention, motivating their consideration for various $5$-th Generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

This letter studies information-theoretic security without knowing the eavesdropper's channel fading state. We present an alternative secrecy outage formulation to measure the probability that message transmissions fail to achieve perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay , Behrouz Maham , Are Hjorungnes

The advantages of using communication networks to interconnect controllers and physical plants motivate the increasing number of Networked Control Systems, in industrial and critical infrastructure facilities. However, this integration also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-05 A. O. Sa , L. F. R. C. Carmo , R. C. S. Machado

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is emerging as a promising technique for performance enhancement for next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Chunming Zhao

Consider the communication of a single-user aided by a nearby relay involved in a large wireless network where the nodes form an homogeneous Poisson point process. Since this network is interference-limited the asymptotic error probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-14 Andres Altieri , Leonardo Rey Vega , Cecilia G. Galarza , Pablo Piantanida

This paper investigates the physical-layer security for an indoor visible light communication (VLC) network consisting of a transmitter, a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper. Both the main channel and the wiretapping channel have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jin-Yuan Wang , Cheng Liu , Jun-Bo Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Min Lin , Julian Cheng

This paper studies secrecy rate optimization in a wireless network with a single-antenna source, a multi-antenna destination and a multi-antenna eavesdropper. This is an unfavorable scenario for secrecy performance as the system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis , Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Bjorn Ottersten

Physical-layer security for wireless networks has become an effective approach and recently drawn significant attention in the literature. In particular, the deployment and allocation of resources such as relays to assist the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 X. Lu , R. C. de Lamare

This letter investigates the potential of pinching-antenna systems for enhancing physical layer security. By pre-installing multiple pinching antennas at discrete positions along a waveguide, the capability of the considered system to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The secrecy performance of realistic wireless multicast scenarios can be significantly deteriorated by the simultaneous occurrence of multipath and shadowing. To resolve this security threat, in this work an opportunistic relaying-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-09 MD. Shakhawat Hossen , A. S. M. Badrudduza , S. M. Riazul Islam , Abu Hanif , Milton Kumar Kundu , Kyung-Sup Kwak

We consider a system where an agent (Alice) aims at transmitting a message to a second agent (Bob) over a set of parallel channels, while keeping it secret from a third agent (Eve) by using physical layer security techniques. We assume that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Franco Chiaraluce , Nicola Laurenti , Stefano Tomasin , Francesco Renna

In this work, we consider the use of buffer-aided relays, linear precoding techniques and multiple antennas for physical-layer security in wireless networks. We develop relay selection algorithms to improve the secrecy-rate performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Xiaotao Lu , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

This paper studies the throughput of large-scale decentralized wireless networks with physical layer security constraints. In particular, we are interested in the question of how much throughput needs to be sacrificed for achieving a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiangyun Zhou , Radha Krishna Ganti , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Are Hjørungnes

Satellite communications emerged as a promising extension to terrestrial networks in future 6G network research due to their extensive coverage in remote areas and ability to support the increasing traffic rate and heterogeneous networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Nora Abdelsalam , Saif Al-Kuwari , Aiman Erbad

Physical layer security (PLS) has received a growing interest from the research community for its ability to safeguard data confidentiality without relying on key distribution or encryption/decryption. However, the evolution towards the 5G…

In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the statistics of the intercell interference power in the downlink of a multicellular network. We first establish an analytical expression for the probability law of the interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Benoit Pijcke , Marie Zwingelstein-Colin , Marc Gazalet , Mohamed Gharbi , Patrick Corlay

Cooperation among wireless nodes has been recently proposed for improving the physical layer (PHY) security of wireless transmission in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. While existing PHY security literature answered the question…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-16 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes

In this paper, we focus on the coverage probability of a double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless network and study the impact of multiplicative beamforming gain and correlated Rayleigh fading. In particular, we obtain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio network that consists of one cognitive base station (CBS) and multiple cognitive users (CUs) in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers, where CUs transmit their data packets to CBS under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yulong Zou , Xianbin Wang , Weiming Shen

We assume a full-duplex (FD) cooperative network subject to hostile attacks and undergoing composite fading channels. We focus on two scenarios: \textit{a)} the transmitter has full CSI, for which we derive closed-form expressions for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Hirley Alves , Glauber Brante , Richard D. Souza , Daniel B. da Costa , Matti Latva-aho